Research Forum Event Recordings

Mon 7 Dec, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Dan Hicks and ‘The Brutish...

The necessary drive for the ‘decolonisation’ of the arts and the restitution of looted artefacts is mounting in light of Black Lives Matter and the antiracism movement. Britain’s museums and galleries are custodians of internationally…

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Fri 4 Dec, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Sy...

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.     Each…

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Thu 3 Dec, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Rainb...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments this Autumn! An uncensored celebration of queer culture, ‘Rainbow Lenses’ will extol the powerful role of…

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Thu 3 Dec, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Sy...

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each…

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Wed 2 Dec, 2020 Documenting Fashion

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Sy...

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each…

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Tue 1 Dec, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Sy...

This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.    Each…

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Mon 30 Nov, 2020 Documenting Fashion

[ONLINE] Fashion Interpretations Sy...

  This symposium takes place online across five nights, showcasing the work of participants in The Courtauld Institute/London College of Fashion AHRC-funded Fashion Interpretations: Dress, Medium & Meaning networking project led by Rebecca Arnold and Judith Clark.   …

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Thu 26 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Symposium – Precious...

  This symposium will explore curatorial, practical and public engagement aspects of The Courtauld’s touring display of Islamic metalwork to four venues in the UK. Beginning with a keynote lecture uncovering the historic importance of…

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Tue 24 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Book event: Reflections: c...

  Book Launch Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa  Venetia Porter with Natasha Morris and Charles Tripp, British Museum Press November 2020    Professor Sussan Babaie will discuss with the authors of this…

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Mon 23 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE]: Continuous Page: Bringing...

https://youtu.be/7BmPeFTeX1Q To celebrate the launch of the latest volume in the Courtauld Books Online series—Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext—this roundtable discussion will reflect on art history’s recent rush online in response…

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Wed 18 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] The Elephant in the Room, ...

This talk explores the fragmentary twelfth-century mural depicting an elephant, situated in the lowermost zone, or dado, of the choir wall in the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption at Gourdon, a small village in the Charolais district of Burgundy. This painting is unique in…

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Fri 13 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia

[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within...

  Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements   This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian…

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Thu 12 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Ethiopian Christians in Fl...

Fifteen-century Florentine paintings regularly include black figures, almost always as men with low social status. In The Rise of the Black Magus in Western Art (1985), Paul Kaplan briefly considered the absence of African kings in fifteenth-century Central…

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Wed 11 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Creators in the get-rich e...

Over the last decade capitalism in the West has undergone a fundamental  transformation. How has it changed and what effect has this had on young artists  living and working today? Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities…

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Tue 10 Nov, 2020 Architecture Cultures

[ONLINE] Radical Alternatives: Temp...

  Professor Pamela Karimi explores the spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1990s. She illuminates the economic, social, intellectual, and visceral forces that have driven Iran’s creative agents toward increasingly original forms of…

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Fri 6 Nov, 2020 Courtauld Asia

[ONLINE] Textual Abstraction Within...

Explore how artists experimented with script in North Africa, West Asia and South Asia in the wake of independence movements   This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers to explore an artistic current that transformed Arabic (including Persian and…

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Thu 5 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Briti...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments this Autumn! From migration and makers to immigrants and innovation the landscape of British art has undeniably been…

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Tue 3 Nov, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Print Room Open House

  At a time when access to The Courtauld and its collections is at its most challenging, the Prints and Drawings department is throwing its doors wide open! We will be holding our first virtual…

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Fri 30 Oct, 2020 Documenting Fashion

[ONLINE] Addressing Images: Nadya Wang

This session of Addressing Images will be based on a photograph taken of Indonesian fashion designer Toton Januar’s Spring/Summer 2019 runway show during Jakarta Fashion Week. We will discuss how contemporary Southeast Asian womenswear designers put together traditional/modern and…

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Wed 28 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] A Rock-Hewn Revolution in ...

Following the collapse of the late antique empire of Aksum, northern Ethiopia entered a “dark age” period, wherein little is known of the region. However, around the year 1000, a triad of cruciform churches were hewn…

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Mon 26 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] New politics, new methods:...

Rifts in the fabric of the British Empire produced spectacular and sometimes strange effects in eighteenth-century British art. The “revolution of history painting” described by Edgar Wind as long ago as 1938, in which contemporary…

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Mon 19 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Feminism’s Occult Imaginat...

Why has the occult become such an important image for fourth–wave feminism? Turner Prize Winner Tai Shani’s work presents a profound and complex investigation into the relationships between feminism, magic, and time. Her performance-installation DC: Semiramis (2018) adapted poet Christine de Pizan’s feminist text The Book of the…

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Wed 14 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Scripture Transformed in L...

  “My talk brings together my early and more recent research on the manuscript that I call the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France MS fr. 1) — the most complete surviving witness and sole extant illuminated copy…

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Sat 10 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] The Big Draw Festival

  The Courtauld invites you and your family to be part of the world’s biggest community of drawing enthusiasts! In 2020 The Big Draw Festival #ClimateOfChange focuses on the relationship between people and our living…

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Wed 7 Oct, 2020 Architecture Cultures

[ONLINE] Book event: ‘Ascenda...

  Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by László Moholy-Nagy is a new publication that offers a unique insight into one of the less familiar sides of the Bauhaus at large and Moholy-Nagy in particular. In May 1926, thirteen Bauhaus professors…

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Tue 6 Oct, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Afterlives of the Kingdom ...

  Born of a slave rebellion on the French colony of Saint-Domingue which transformed into the most radical antislavery and anticolonial revolution in world history, Haiti became the first independent Black republic in 1804. In the…

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Thu 1 Oct, 2020 Open Courtauld

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Rethi...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s digital series on all things art history – is back for monthly instalments this Autumn! Aligning with The Courtauld’s most recent acquisition — Paul Gauguin’s Avant…

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Wed 1 Jul, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE]: Violent Fluids: Feminist ...

How have images of blood shaped histories of gender from medieval manuscripts to contemporary art? The Courtauld’s Gender & Sexuality Research Group welcome Dr Hetta Howes (City University of London) and Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik (St Andrews) to speak about their research…

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Wed 1 Jul, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] The 38th Annual Gerry Hedl...

The Gerry Hedley Symposium is an annual student-run conference. Post-graduate students and interns from all three of the UK’s conservation courses, The Hamilton Kerr Institute, Northumbria University and The Courtauld Institute of Art, have the…

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Thu 25 Jun, 2020 - Fri 26 Jun, 2020 Conference

[ONLINE] Art History in Climate Change

This online conference will explore the stakes of art and art history in the climate crisis.  In recent years, climate change has become a central issue on the international political agenda, due to the activism…

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Thu 25 Jun, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Past ...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s weekly digital instalment on all things art history – is back! With pubs being the first places to be closed, and most likely last to be…

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Tue 23 Jun, 2020 Event Recording

[NEW DATE – ONLINE] Facture W...

This is an online event.  Please register for further details. The platform and log in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour…

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Wed 24 Jun, 2020 Artist's talk

[ONLINE] Artist Talk with Sunil Gupta

This is a live online event.   You do not need to register for the event. On Wednesday 24th June at 17.30 you can tune in to watch the event live here and via the Somerset…

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Thu 18 Jun, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: The A...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s weekly digital instalment on all things art history – is back! From subject matter to statement, it is no secret that food and feasting have played…

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Tue 26 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Ornament and Obsolescence:...

This is an online event.   Please register for further details. The platform log in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour prior…

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Fri 22 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Jane Austen Embroidery: fr...

Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. She was a keen amateur embroiderer who was praised for being so ‘excellent in satin stitch’ that she would have put ‘a sewing…

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Thu 21 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Women...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Our fourth Open Courtauld Hour will focus on Women Artists, addressing gender imbalance in the…

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Thu 21 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] McQueens Illuminating Obje...

This is a live online event  Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour…

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Wed 20 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Declaring Emergency: Museu...

This is a live online event.  Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Registration will close one hour…

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Thu 14 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: The F...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! In this session, our experts discuss the Courtauld’s ever-changing approach to the online publication of…

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Wed 13 May, 2020 Medieval and Renaissance

[ONLINE] A mystery mosaic and the r...

As with many multi-period sites, art historical interest in the Great Mosque of Damascus has mainly been on the ‘original’ phase, and discussions of the mosaics have tended to focus on the iconography and significance…

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Thu 7 May, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Art a...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Over recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of the potential impact that art…

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Thu 30 Apr, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] Open Courtauld Hour: Art i...

Open Courtauld Hour – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s brand new weekly series of Art historical mini-festivals – is here! Why does art matter in quarantine? Lockdown has been transformational in how artists, galleries and…

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Mon 27 Apr, 2020 Event Recording

[ONLINE] “Not so much a line as a s...

This is a live online event. Please register for further details. The platform and log-in details will be sent to attendees at least 48 hours prior to the event time. Donald Judd’s rising reputation and…

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Tue 10 Mar, 2020 Event Recording

Van Gogh at the Met: recent insight...

Spring Lecture Series The Metropolitan Museum of Art has in its collection seventeen paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. These celebrated works have been researched and published extensively, but technical examinations are providing new insights into…

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Thu 5 Mar, 2020 Bahari Lecture

Art in Peril: The Case of the Negar...

In recent years, civil wars, terrorism and revolutions have destabilized the Middle East and Western Asia and taken a terrible human and cultural toll. Cultural destruction knows no boundaries, geographical or historical. This lecture will…

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Tue 3 Mar, 2020 Research Forum

The Restoration of the Petworth ‘Be...

Spring Lecture Series ‘I will cut off their legs, I do not want their petticoats.’ With this command, the 3rd Earl of Egremont shortened the Petworth ‘Beauties’, a series of eight paintings of women of…

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Thu 27 Feb, 2020 Courtauld Asia

Inarticulate Depths: Victoria Sin i...

Artist Victoria Sin discusses desire, identification, agency and strategies of queer resistance with curator and art historian, Kostas Stasinopoulos. This conversation aims to provide an insight into Sin’s practice, focusing on speculative ideas surrounding the…

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Tue 18 Feb, 2020 Research Forum

The recent relining of the National...

Spring Lecture Series The presentation will discuss the recent relining of van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I. This is a large picture, measuring approximately 3.7m X 3.0m, and was relined with an equivalent of…

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Tue 4 Feb, 2020 Research Forum

The Cleaning and Restoration of Bru...

Spring Lecture Series From October 2018 until January 2019 the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna commemorated the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder with an important exhibition. For the first time ever the…

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Mon 3 Feb, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

The Future is a Rectangle: Modernis...

International Style modernist architecture, together with many of its major practitioners, arrived in the United States after World War II. It famously took form in corporate office buildings and public housing projects by the mid-1950s.…

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Mon 20 Jan, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

Vision and Value: Cotton and the Ma...

This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines…

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Tue 19 Nov, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

Emergent evacuations?: African wome...

Please join us for our fourth Frank Davis Memorial Lecture of 2019. The contradictory logics of colonialism can be understood to have been anxiety-producing in relation to bodily sovereignty, most especially for African women. However,…

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Thu 7 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia

DMZ Revisited: Nikolaus Hirsch and ...

The Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) is one of the world’s most heavily militarised border, located between South and North Korea. On the occasion of the opening of an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre UK…

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Wed 6 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia

Myths, Memories and Miniatures: The...

  The New York-based Shahzia Sikander will speak about her multi-media artworks.  Sikander’s pioneering practice takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by…

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Tue 5 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia

Sussan Deyhim: Performance and Prac...

This is the second lecture in a series hosted by Dr Sussan Babaie and co-organised by ​Iran Heritage Foundation with The Courtauld Institute of Art, and in association with independent curator Vali Mahlouji Sussan Deyhim…

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Mon 4 Nov, 2019 Courtauld Asia

Worldbuilding for 2065

  Interlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative fiction, Lawrence Lek’s CGI films and virtual worlds explore the geopolitical impact of automation and simulation. His universe is populated with dreamers – intelligent satellites, freedom fighters, fading…

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Tue 29 Oct, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

A Coptic Center in Medieval West Af...

Please join us for our second Frank Davis Memorial Lecture of 2019. This paper explores the importance of new technologies in the art historical study of Medieval West Africa and how related methodologies both help…

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Fri 25 Oct, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisit...

Please join us for the first Frank Davis Memorial Lecture of the year. In 1730, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested José Francisco, an enslaved man raised in West Africa, who had learned in Brazil the…

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Wed 23 Oct, 2019 Event Recording

Gender and Ritual in the Baptistery...

One of the most remarkable fresco programmes of the later Trecento can be found in the baptistery of Padua.  The frescoes, painted by the Florentine artist Giusto de’ Menabuoi in the mid-1370s, include a dazzling depiction…

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Fri 18 Oct, 2019 - Sat 19 Oct, 2019 Conference

Imagining the Apocalypse

Keynote: Professor Robert Mills (University College London) #ImaginingTheApocalypse | @CourtauldRes Shaped by different religious traditions, the apocalypse has been called upon throughout history to articulate collective anxieties, act as a warning, or a yearned-for spiritual…

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Thu 17 Oct, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory

Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alter...

The panel will discuss what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, one hundred years after the Republic’s formation. Speakers will explore where art-historical research on Weimar might be heading and what,…

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Wed 16 Oct, 2019 American Art

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution ...

On the night of July 9, 1776, a crowd emboldened by a public reading of the Declaration of Independence pulled a huge equestrian statue of King George III from its pedestal in lower Manhattan. A…

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Thu 10 Oct, 2019 - Fri 11 Oct, 2019 Conference

Conceptualism and Materiality. Matt...

Conference and Book Launch This conference celebrates the publication of Conceptualism and Materiality: Matters of Art and Politics (ed. by Christian Berger, Brill, 2019). The aim is to underscore the significance of materials and materiality within Anglo-American…

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Wed 12 Jun, 2019 Event Recording

Historical Present: Collective Misr...

We live in history, scurrying along streets with ancient names, past old buildings and historic landmarks, through protected landscapes, amidst plaques and statuary memorialising achievement and catastrophe. While the commemoration industry is focused on events…

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Tue 18 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

Lee Krasner: Making Art, Making Tro...

This lecture, set in New York City during the Great Depression, will focus on the formative years of Brooklyn-born painter, Lee Krasner (1908-1984), beginning with her study at the National Academy of Design. There she…

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Thu 20 Jun, 2019 Museum Debates

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Hardeep...

Artists Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Hardeep Pandhal will come together to discuss their work in relation to the exhibition GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place. The talk will explore the ways in which both artists’ work…

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Tue 4 Jun, 2019 Museum Debates

Art as Prescription: Mindfulness in...

Museums across the UK and abroad are increasingly engaging with discourses around mindfulness and mental health. More than 600 museums in the UK – almost a quarter – are already running programmes targeting these topics…

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Mon 3 Jun, 2019 Research Forum

Howardena Pindell: In Conversation,...

Howardena Pindell: In Conversation, with Naomi Beckwith and Amy Tobin We are thrilled to announce that renowned American artist Howardena Pindell will be joining us for a conversation on the eve of her first solo…

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Thu 30 May, 2019 Research Forum

Marc Quinn in conversation with Jo ...

We are delighted to announce that the Annual Artist’s talk hosted by The Courtauld’s Sculptural Processes Group will be delivered by the artist Marc Quinn on Thursday May 30th. Quinn will be in conversation with…

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Tue 14 May, 2019 Conference

CAS Annual Conference: Re-Writing t...

Join us for the CAS Annual Conference, bringing together scholars, curators and museum professionals to consider significant recent initiatives in collecting, exhibitions and display, and the issues they raise. In recent decades, notions of a…

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Fri 10 May, 2019 Conference

Thinking Drawing 1960 to Now

This day-long symposium takes as its subject the status of drawing since 1960 as a complex and dynamic medium. Bringing together artists, curators, and art historians, the symposium will explore drawing’s status as a significant…

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Mon 29 Apr, 2019 CRSBI annual lecture

The Surviving Architecture and Scul...

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Wed 6 Mar, 2019 Museum Debates

Blurring Boundaries? Confronting Et...

Recent exhibitions and permanent displays have brought together a selection of ethnographic objects and contemporary art. Notable examples include the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy (2018) and the recently opened Albukhary Foundation Gallery of…

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Wed 13 Mar, 2019 ICMA lecture

A Beast of a Project: Curating an E...

The prospect of curating a major international loan exhibition is equal parts thrilling and intimidating. After eight years of intense research, loan negotiation, design development, and thousands of emails, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in…

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Tue 15 Jan, 2019 Professorial Lecture

“Don’t praise artists, praise admin...

Please join us for the first in our series of Professorial Lectures at our new home in Vernon Square. In this first instalment, Prof. Antony Eastmond (Dean and Deputy Director; A. G. Leventis Professor in the History…

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Tue 5 Feb, 2019 Professorial Lecture

Only Connect

Book Two of Leon Battista Alberti’s hugely influential treatise Della Pittura et della Statua (1435–1436) begins with a passage that has stayed with me throughout my career: ‘Painting has in itself a truly divine power,…

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Tue 12 Feb, 2019 Professorial Lecture

Engaging with Sienese Painting thro...

This lecture takes three approaches to the theme of time and Sienese painting of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.  First, focusing on a single painting, I will reflect on some of the developments in the…

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Wed 24 Apr, 2019 Professorial Lecture

From invention to inventory: object...

In the late 14th century, the kings of France and the princes of the blood constructed, commissioned,  purchased, gave, appropriated,  pawned and liquidated some of the most extraordinary and magnificent objects of the late medieval period, in a…

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Wed 15 May, 2019 Professorial Lecture

Buildings in Bits: Lessons from the...

The ‘English Baroque’ was an economic phenomenon more than a stylistic one. Construction was the second-biggest industry in London, and much went on elsewhere, too, but few people made their livings as architects in our sense.…

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Thu 28 Feb, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

Out of the Woodwork

The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new text-image economy, one defined by the mass reproduction and dissemination of pictures, together with text, in lucrative and popular illustrated newspapers, weeklies, and books. The explosion…

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Fri 24 May, 2019 - Sat 25 May, 2019 Conference

Art Institutions and Race in the At...

The long eighteenth century gave rise to a host of art institutions throughout the Atlantic world, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Academia…

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Thu 17 Jan, 2019 Modern and Contemporary

Rethinking Art & Philosophy as...

“In a pluralistic conception of discipline”, suggests Jann Pasler, “the question is not so much what is new or old, or what needs to be replaced or superseded, but rather how each perspective can be…

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Mon 13 May, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

‘The World is My Palette̵...

At a press conference organized at UN headquarters in 1984, the artist Robert Rauschenberg announced the formation of an ambitious new program: the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, known as ROCI. The initiative would take the…

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Fri 1 Mar, 2019 Modern and Contemporary Postgraduate Colloquium

Queer Conversations: Looking to Art...

Queer readings of books, novels, films, paintings, and performances give us our maps, our user’s manuals for finding pleasure in a world more often than not organized around that pleasure’s annihilation. — Jennifer Doyle, ‘Queer…

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Thu 14 Feb, 2019 Lecture

‘Roman Vishniac’s Life and Le...

Presented simultaneously at Jewish Museum London and The Photographers’ Gallery, Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of Russian born American photographer, Roman Vishniac (1897–1990). An extraordinarily versatile and innovative photographer, Vishniac is best known for having created one…

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Tue 19 Feb, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory

Some Roles of Drawing

Some Roles of Drawing is an evening dedicated to architectural drawing. With guest speakers Tony Fretton, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Niall Hobhouse, it will explore some of the many and shifting roles played by…

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Thu 8 Nov, 2018 Contemporaneity In South Asian Art

Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of...

In conjunction with her mid-career retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, New York-based Rina Banerjee will discuss the vivid paintings and sculptural installations that she makes from materials sourced…

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Wed 14 Nov, 2018 Lecture

Russian Dada: Moscow, Berlin, Paris...

Formalist critic Roman Jakobson noted that the Russians travelled toward the October Revolution ‘through a realization of the violence of artistic form’ that in the West had culminated in Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, executed in the same year.…

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Mon 29 Oct, 2018 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

On the Spot! The African Contributi...

This lecture will explore the ‘decentering’ of Art History by the artistic and visual material made by colonial artists in the French West Indies in the early modern period. These works testify to the encounters…

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Thu 2 May, 2019 Artists on Brexit

Brexit and the Apocalypse

In 2016 artists Thomson & Craighead made a perfume-artwork called Apocalypse: re-creating the olfactory description of the end of the world from the King James Bible’s Book of Revelation. A work as timely as it…

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Thu 21 Mar, 2019 Artists on Brexit

Brexit’s Political Imagination

What does Brexit look like? Political cartoons are at the very forefront of crafting Brexit’s political imagination: giving shape and form to the fears and anxieties that colour a fast-moving and turbulent political landscape. Martin…

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Mon 8 Oct, 2018 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

Global Encounters and Art History, ...

European artistic experience in the early modern period was a global one, inceasingly filled with peoples, things, materials, and memories from worlds beyond Europe. Yet the content, chronology, and structure of art history’s European canon…

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Mon 15 Oct, 2018 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

‘Dreaming has a Share in History’: ...

This lecture will reflect on recent developments in Black British Art with a focus on the work of Lubaina Himid and other artists of her generation. Over the course of a career spanning several decades,…

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Mon 3 Dec, 2018 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series

Rethinking Image and Narrative at t...

Indigenous people have been travelling to London – willingly or otherwise – since 1502. They have come as captives and diplomats, missionaries and performers, activists and artists. Drawing on this long history of Indigenous engagement…

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Thu 18 Oct, 2018 Artists on Brexit

Feminism, Brexit and the Irish Border

What might a feminist approach to Brexit and the Irish border look like? In 2017 Northern Irish artist Rita Duffy created an artwork across the Blacklion-Belcoo Bridge, which straddles the Irish-Northern Irish border. Soften the…

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Tue 26 Jun, 2018 Museum Debates

Museums after #MeToo

The storm of revelations of sexual abuse that hit the world in 2017 raised a host of questions about the prominence of individuals accused of sexual abuse or harassment. These have many implications for the…

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Tue 19 Jun, 2018 - Wed 20 Jun, 2018 Research Forum

ART HISTORY: UNDISCIPLINED?

‘Art History: Undisciplined’ will demonstrate the many ways that art history interacts with and informs fields of research, study and activity that lie beyond the conventional boundaries of the subject. Essentially, this conference aims to…

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Mon 21 May, 2018 Lecture

The Warburg and The Courtauld: Imbr...

This summer, The Courtauld welcomes visiting expert Prof. Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan) to give the first lecture in a two-part series – The Warburg and the Courtauld: Imbricated Histories.  The Courtauld Institute of Art opened…

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Thu 19 Apr, 2018 Gender Matters - Women and Arts Leadership

Gender Matters – Perspectives...

A panel discussion informed by personal journeys to positions of leadership. The art world is not gender balanced. 70% of art museum curators are women, yet museum leadership retains a boy’s club reputation. None of…

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Thu 22 Mar, 2018 Museum Debates

The Elephant in the Room: Ivory and...

On 6 October 2017, Environment Secretary Michael Gove announced plans to implement a total ban on the UK’s trade of ivory. The ban would have wide-reaching implications across the art world. Its inevitable impact on…

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